January 12, 1973

Pres Nixon on Jan 11 ends wage and price controls, except for those involving health care, food and construction, replacing them with system relying mainly on 'voluntary cooperation'; surveillance will be focused on wage trends for health care

NYS Assemblyman Hardt, chmn of special state comm on drugs, says on Jan 11 that comm will imminently recommend to Legis new penalties for drug traffickers that are 'tough' but not as severe as those being sought by Gov Rockefeller; sees hard-line law-enforcement approach emerging as only solution to narcotics problem; notes there are possible const flaws in Rockefeller proposal and recommends that distinction be made between small-time addict-pusher and big-time drug dealer; commends Rockefeller for effort to bring 'full burden of the law to bear on illicit drug pushers'; urges passage of legis for proper disposal by police of contraband drugs

E H Hunt Jr pleads guilty on Jan 11 to all 6 charges against him in Watergate case after Judge Sirica refuses to accept his Jan 10 offer to plead guilty to only 3 charges; Hunt is freed on $100,000 surety bond to await sentencing; says that to his personal knowledge there was no wider conspiracy involving Govt 'higher-ups'; says that Govt's detailed outline of its case against him and 6 others is substantially correct and that he did what he did because he believed it to be in best interests of country; Fed jury hears 1st testimony against 6 remaining defendants facing charges of conpiracy, burglary and eavesdropping; major witness is Brigham Young Univ student T J Gregory, who said that Hunt recruited him early last yr to spy on Dem Pres hopefuls Muskie and McGovern; says he received $175-a-wk for passing information to Hunt and that he saw G G Liddy and J W McCord in company of Hunt on several occasions; jury was out while Hunt pleaded guilty but it developed that juror G Oleaga had heard news of plea; juror is replaced; illus of Hunt with lawyer W O Bittman

Capt M J Heck, B-52 pilot who refused to bomb N Vietnam after his 175th mission, say he refused because 'the goals do not justify the mass destruction and killing,' int, Jan 11; by prior agreement, circumstances under which he was int cannot be revealed; authorities say Heck is at U Taphao air base, Thailand; Heck submits resignation, Jan 11, to USAF; also, as alternative, seeks noncombat status as a conscientious objector; says 'there is enough suffering just in S Vietnam to warrant a discontinuation of the war'; says the massive bombing of the North may have been the 'last straw'; comment on how he reached his decision on Dec 26, on bombing of civilians and on heavy US plane losses; comment on his career and his aspirations in civilian life; Heck por

Kissinger and Le Duc Tho meet for 6 hrs in private Paris peace talks, Jan 12; are joined for 1st time by technical staffs, who had been meeting separately; there is no direct word on subject of talks; formal peace talks session held; discussion there concentrates on whether there is to be one Vietnam, influenced by Hanoi, or whether country is to remain divided; Communists warn of impending big offensive by Saigon's armed forces against Vietcong-held territory in the south; say large-scale preparations are under way, especially in Quang Tri Prov; Saigon, with US support, demands that DMZ be recognized as border between 2 sovereign govts; Communists insist that DMZ is 'temporary mil demarcation line,' as provided in '54 Geneva accords; illus of Xuan Thuy, Le Duc Tho and Kissinger arriving at talks